Opera Australia Drops Two Critics From Press Tix List; Predictable Furor Ensues

“In early December, Sydney Morning Herald classical music critic Harriet Cunningham was removed from OA’s list after [artistic director Lyndon] Terracini was, according to an OA publicist, ‘very offended’ by a piece she wrote in Crikey‘s arts website … And on Friday, OA took another well-respected critic off its complimentary tickets list – Stage Noise and former Bulletin arts editor, Diana Simmonds.”

Transforming A Thomas Pynchon Book For The Silver Screen

“It’s not a question of homage but of throwing absolutely everything into the mix for processing, every stray particle of a commonly shared culture—every joke good or bad that you ever heard, every commercial you couldn’t escape from, every sex fantasy or tabloid crime story that inhabited your dreams, every tag line dredged up from ancient comic strips or pulp stories.”